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Three for Thursday: The Bicycle Shop

Jack Kane does a lot of custom work, whether that is building frames or repairing damaged carbon

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Something you won't see inside most bike shops...

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This wooden sculpture pays tribute to Kane's heritage with a painted van

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A snakeskin fade paint job

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Endurance Films got a bike touting the hard goods of multimedia

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When the front wheel spins, it gives the illustion of a film reeling running

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The sky is the limit for visual styles

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Jack Kane paints his own frames, but many riders send him existing frames to be redone

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Want a hidden compartment for a Di2 battery? Jack Kane can do that

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Shimano Ultegra Di2

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Campagnolo EPS

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Cannondale Synapse

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No, you don't need to clean this — you need to polish it

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Jack Kane got his start with custom paint on vans in the 1960s

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The man at work

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Jack Kane does a lot of custom work, whether that is building frames or repairing damaged carbon

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Something you won't see inside most bike shops...

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This wooden sculpture pays tribute to Kane's heritage with a painted van

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A snakeskin fade paint job

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Endurance Films got a bike touting the hard goods of multimedia

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When the front wheel spins, it gives the illustion of a film reeling running

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The sky is the limit for visual styles

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Jack Kane paints his own frames, but many riders send him existing frames to be redone

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Want a hidden compartment for a Di2 battery? Jack Kane can do that

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Shimano Ultegra Di2

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Campagnolo EPS

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Cannondale Synapse

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No, you don't need to clean this — you need to polish it

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Spider webs, scripture verses, spinning CDs, blowing water that turns to ice then turns to fire... If you can dream it up, Jack Kane can carefully paint the design onto your bicycle or wheels.

Every week Three for Thursday highlights bike culture as celebrated by bike shops around the country. In this installment we check in with The Bicycle Shop in Jacksonville, North Carolina, where owner Jack Kane has made a name for himself with his custom paint jobs refined over four decades.

The man at his craft

1. The coolest thing in the shop is: the custom paint program

Like any retailer, Jack Kane can sell you a stock bike, but many riders come to him for his custom work, whether that is repairing carbon or painting intricate designs on a frame or wheels. Kane got into painting in the 1960s, first learning on vans, and when he opened The Bicycle Shop in 1973, it just grew from there.

Kane builds about 150 frames a year — he began years ago in metal, and now can do carbon — but he also does paint work on existing bikes.

"You can’t believe what people ask for," he said with a laugh. "I had one guy who wanted grass coming out of the bottom bracket, water droplets blowing across the top tube turning to ice, and at the rear wheel he wanted fire."

If you can articulate your desire, Jack Kane can execute it with paint

The front of The Bicycle Shop looks like a normal bike store, but the rear of the building houses Kane's machine shop and paint studio. There, Kane has painted on a Citadel, scripture verses and sports teams' logos, among other things.

"A pastor wanted grapes and grapevine. Most of the custom bikes are my frames. But people do send me frames to have their dream paint jobs put on. A lot are carbon repairs. One week we had four Cervélos, two glossy and two with flat paint. The guys who had glossy finishes wanted them painted flat. The flat guys wanted them glossy."

Kane did a bike for Endurance Film with a DVD painted on the rear disc and a film reel illustrated on the 85mm front wheel. When the bike rolls, the front wheel looks like a spinning film reel.

This design isn't for everyone — which is exactly the point

"A guy with a 20-year-old Trek wanted it painted to look like a new Madone," Kane said. "And a man from Lego in London wanted a Banesto Pinarello paint job in Carolina blue."

"We are selling tons of these carbon road bikes, mostly at the Shimano 105 level," Kane said. "For people getting into cycling, this is a great starting bike."

The comfort and the light weight impress riders, Kane said.

"We like it when people come back with the wow from test rides," he said.

3. Right now I am loving: electronic shifting

"I love the new Shimano Ultegra Di2," Kane said. "It is amazing, it's great. I have a lot of military customers who can’t hear very well after years of firing weapons. And now I don’t have to ride alongside them listening to their front derailleur rubbing!" (Di2 automatically trims the front derailleur to match the rear derailleur position, which eliminates the user error of a poorly adjusted derailleur.)